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Bricks and Tablets with Cuneiform

Bricks and Tablets with Cuneiform 




‎The script shown here, called cuneiform from a Latin phrase meaning “wedge-shaped,” included many wedge-like characters. Though writing implements and surfaces varied, scribes usually used a reed stylus on a clay tablet. Other surfaces included stone, precious metals, and wax-coated wood or ivory. The script’s pictographic origins predate 3500 B.C. The Sumerians developed a distinctly cuneiform script around 3000 B.C., and many Mesopotamian languages adapted it. Babylonian cuneiform marks the objects in this picture. By the second century A.D., scripts based on the Phoenician alphabet had replaced cuneiform.
‎Ezra 1:1, Esth 8:8, Esth 9:30, Dan 5:5

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